The Second Jungle Book

Continues the story of Mowgli begun in The Jungle Book with happenings in the time of Mowgli's maturity, when he shows increasing wisdom in helping to rescue his birth-parents, disposing of an ill-fated weapon, and leading the Jungle People in their rout of the Red Dogs. The last Mowgli story ends with his leaving the Jungle People to return to his own. Three other stories are interspersed among the Mowgli stories, two of them about villages in dire circumstances saved through the efforts of extraordinary individuals.